List of Olympic records in swimming

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Michael Phelps holds five individual and three team Olympic swimming records.

The International Olympic Committee recognises the fastest performances in pool-based swimming events at the Olympic Games. Men's swimming has been part of the Summer Olympics since the Games' modern inception in 1896; it was not until 1912 that women competed against each other. The swimming events at the 1896 Olympic Games were held in a bay in the Aegean Sea with swimmers being required to swim to the shore—Hungarian swimmer Alfréd Hajós won two gold medals that year, saying "My will to live completely overcame my desire to win."[1] The 1900 Games in Paris saw the swimming events take place in the River Seine while the 1908 events were hosted in a 100 m pool located within an athletics track in the White City Stadium in London.[2]

Races are held in four swimming strokes: freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly, over varying distances and in either individual or relay race events. In the 2012 Olympic Games in London, both men and women competed in sixteen events in the pool, each sex in the same events with the exceptions of the 800 m freestyle (women-only) and the 1500 m freestyle (men-only).[2] Of the 32 pool-based events, swimmers from the United States hold sixteen records, China five, Australia four, the Netherlands two, and one each to Brasil, France, Great Britain, Hungary, and South Africa.

Men's records

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César Cielo Filho
Sun Yang

♦ denotes a performance that is also a current world record. Statistics are correct as of 29 July 2012, during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and include only those events which are currently recognised by the IOC as Olympic events.

Event Record Name Nation Games Date Ref
50 m freestyle 21.30  César Cielo Filho  Brazil (BRA) 2008 Beijing August 16, 2008 [3]
100 m freestyle 47.05  Eamon Sullivan  Australia (AUS) 2008 Beijing August 13, 2008 [A]
200 m freestyle 1:42.96  Michael Phelps  United States (USA) 2008 Beijing August 12, 2008 [4]
400 m freestyle 3:40.14  Sun Yang  China (CHN) 2012 London July 28, 2012
1500 m freestyle ♦14:31.02  Sun Yang  China (CHN) 2012 London August 4, 2012
100 m backstroke 52.16  Matt Grevers  United States (USA) 2012 London July 30, 2012 [5]
200 m backstroke 1:53.41  Tyler Clary  United States (USA) 2012 London August 2, 2012 [6]
100 m breaststroke 58.46  Cameron van der Burgh  South Africa (RSA) 2012 London July 29, 2012 [7]
200 m breaststroke 2:07.28  Dániel Gyurta  Hungary (HUN) 2012 London August 1, 2012 [8]
100 m butterfly 50.58  Michael Phelps  United States (USA) 2008 Beijing August 16, 2008 [9]
200 m butterfly 1:52.03  Michael Phelps  United States (USA) 2008 Beijing August 13, 2008 [10]
200 m individual medley 1:54.23  Michael Phelps  United States (USA) 2008 Beijing August 15, 2008 [11]
400 m individual medley ♦4:03.84  Michael Phelps  United States (USA) 2008 Beijing August 10, 2008 [12]
4×100 m freestyle relay ♦3:08.24  Michael Phelps (47.51)
Garrett Weber-Gale (47.02)
Cullen Jones (47.65)
Jason Lezak (46.06)		  United States (USA) 2008 Beijing August 11, 2008 [13]
4×200 m freestyle relay 6:58.56  Michael Phelps (1:43.31)
Ryan Lochte (1:44.28)
Ricky Berens (1:46.29)
Peter Vanderkaay (1:44.68)		  United States (USA) 2008 Beijing August 13, 2008 [14]
4×100 m medley relay 3:29.34  Aaron Peirsol (53.16)
Brendan Hansen (59.27)
Michael Phelps (50.15)
Jason Lezak (46.76)		  United States (USA) 2008 Beijing August 17, 2008 [15]

Women's records

Ranomi Kromowidjojo
Rebecca Adlington

♦ denotes a performance that is also a current world record. Statistics are correct as of 30 July 2012, during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and include only those events which are currently recognised by the IOC as Olympic events.

Event Record Name Nation Games Date Ref
50 m freestyle 24.05  Ranomi Kromowidjojo  Netherlands (NED) 2012 London August 4, 2012 [16]
100 m freestyle 53.00  Ranomi Kromowidjojo  Netherlands (NED) 2012 London August 2, 2012 [17]
200 m freestyle 1:53.61  Allison Schmitt  United States (USA) 2012 London July 31, 2012 [18]
400 m freestyle 4:01.45  Camille Muffat  France (FRA) 2012 London July 29, 2012 [19]
800 m freestyle 8:14.10  Rebecca Adlington  Great Britain (GBR) 2008 Beijing August 16, 2008 [20]
100 m backstroke 58.23  Emily Seebohm  Australia (AUS) 2012 London July 29, 2012 [B]
200 m backstroke ♦2:04.06  Missy Franklin  United States (USA) 2012 London August 3, 2012 [21]
100 m breaststroke 1:05.17  Leisel Jones  Australia (AUS) 2008 Beijing August 10, 2008 [22]
200 m breaststroke 2:19.59  Rebecca Soni  United States (USA) 2012 London August 2, 2012 [23]
100 m butterfly 55.98  Dana Vollmer  United States (USA) 2012 London July 29, 2012 [24]
200 m butterfly 2:04.06  Jiao Liuyang  China (CHN) 2012 London August 1, 2012 [25]
200 m individual medley 2:07.57  Ye Shiwen  China (CHN) 2012 London July 31, 2012 [26]
400 m individual medley ♦4:28.43  Ye Shiwen  China (CHN) 2012 London July 28, 2012 [27]
4×100 m freestyle relay 3:33.15  Alicia Coutts (53.90)
Cate Campbell (54.19)
Brittany Elmslie (53.41)
Melanie Schlanger (52.65)		  Australia (AUS) 2012 London July 28, 2012 [28]
4×200 m freestyle relay 7:42.92  Missy Franklin (1:55.96)
Dana Vollmer (1:56.02)
Shannon Vreeland (1:56.85)
Allison Schmitt (1:54.09)		  United States (USA) 2012 London August 1, 2012 [29]
4×100 m medley relay ♦3:52.05  Missy Franklin (58.50)
Rebecca Soni (1:04.82)
Dana Vollmer (55.48)
Allison Schmitt (53.25)		  United States (USA) 2012 London August 4, 2012

Footnotes

  1. ^ Sullivan broke the Olympic and world record for the men's 100 m freestyle in the second semifinal of the 2008 Summer Olympics.[30]
  2. ^ Seebohm broke the Olympic record for the women's 100 m backstroke in the fourth heat of the 2012 Summer Olympics.[30]

References

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